As fears of Italy possibly being the next casualty of Europe’s financial crisis grew, a few of her countrymen took to the field as they faced an broken but fearless Irish side. Certainly, that image of the 2006 World Cup Champions was the one that reserved my thought as the…

Spain gets into their stride. And my feeling that if Torres started he would score was proven right in the fourth minute. Torres is a striker who enjoys the confidence. And not something just told for effective PR to the nosy press looking for any smoke they can…

As fears of Italy possibly being the next casualty of Europe’s financial crisis grows, a few of her countrymen took to the field as they faced an unpredictable but fearless Croatian side. Yet again, the Italians have failed their people, this time from a footballing perspective, to those…